*These prints will first be made available for purchase starting Tuesday, October 15. A limited number of prints will also be available for purchase at Printed Matter’s booth at OFFSCREEN in Paris at the Grand Garage Haussmann, October 15–20. Each edition will be available for a special limited-time price of $100 through Sunday, October 20.
Printed Matter is thrilled to announce the second [#2424-1, 1999] and third [#3878, 2005] in a series of three fundraising Risograph-print editions by the artist Todd Hido. These two images bookend Hido’s most recent Risograph print, launched by Printed Matter last month.
This image departs from the previous two nighttime snowscapes while maintaining Hido’s study of different effects of artificial light. Hido writes, “Like many best photographs, this one was made entirely by accident. I left a TV on after leaving a motel room, and when I returned after dark, I walked into this scene, lit entirely by the flicker of the television.” The third and final print in this series, #3878 demonstrates the unique ability of the Risograp- printing process to expand upon the subtleties of shadow and darkness.
Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) is an inveterate book collector, who regularly draws on this carefully cultivated library of artists’ and photobooks for inspiration. He notes that “As a photographer who generally makes books that are more trade publications, I find it really amazing to come into a world like Printed Matter: full of art with a capital A, artists’ books. I find that the variations and the explorations in books such as these, are really exciting and inspiring. I often hope to walk out of the shop, or one of the fairs, with lots of ideas in my head for my own work and my own future explorations.”
Through his unique process of photographing landscapes and signature color palette, Hido alludes to the quiet and mysterious side of suburban America—where uniform communities provide for a stable façade—implying the instability that often lies behind the walls. His photographs are in over 50 private and public collections around the world, including the Getty, Whitney Museum of American Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Pier 24 Photography holds the archive of all of his published works. Hido has published more than a dozen books, including the award-winning monographs House Hunting (2001) and Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013). His Aperture titles include Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude (2014) and Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs (2016).
